REMINGTON 700 - One of the Best All Around Rifles?

LittleBoyLefty said:
When someone asks me the 'what rifle' question, with those parameters, my default answer has become, 'Tikka'.
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Tikka is a great choice if you have a plastic deficiency in your life.

Nothing like a Remington 700 thread without attention seekers boasting about their favorite alternative guns. ;-)

Here is a Remington 700 mountain rifle in 308. And another in 30-06. Both sub-moa shooters. Both classy firearms. Real rifles.
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The Remington 700 is the most, for the least. It doesn't require 97 trick moves out of the box, and has the aftermarket support that few other, if any, models or manufacturers have. Detachable, floor plate, or blind magazine, dozens and dozens of stock options, triggers, and pretty much anything else that can be thought of, can all be had for the 700. The price point and versatility set it apart, but may diminish it from the so called "elite" status that some seek, as does, perhaps, the ability of the average person to modify the rifle themselves to achieve the desired outcome without having a smith involved.

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My dad has a first year 700 BDL in 243 with a factory 20” barrel and the old aluminum butt plate. I love that gun, pressed checkering and all. The stock is also a bit slimmer than the newer BDL. He’s got a nice mountain rifle 7x57 and some great model sevens too.

I’m not much of a Remington guy myself but I did just pick up a minty 1998 DOM 700 stainless BDL in 7-08. What a sweet little rifle I could see myself keeping this one for awhile. Way better than any of the new ones I’ve seen, especially the stock.
 
chuck nelson said:
Dude, I’ve adjusted dozens upon dozens of triggers. Among many other things. But I’m certainly not a gunsmith and I have certainly had gunsmiths do a lot of work for me. In fact I have some work that needs done. Do you want to take it on?

Here is the short list:

I have a Williams “one piece” bottom metal unit that I would like the cage removed on. It will require a second hole in the trigger bow for the middle guard screw and then the cage milled free so that the transition is not visible. I would also like the trigger slot tigged and recut for a narrower shoe. I’ll send specs.
I have a receiver that I would like the rear bridge and receiver ring surface ground to restore concentricity and parallel edges on the bridge.
I need a bolt release tigged and ground and then checkered.
I also need a trigger ground narrowed, and shotgun faced for a left hand shooter.
When you get that done, I need a bolt handle replaced. I’d like a match to the factory sweep, but with a deeper scallop at the root. I’ll send pictures.

Oh, I almost forgot, I’ve got a spring steel extractor that is for a standard bolt face that I need opened for a magnum.
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WOW I am impressed. NOT
I can only guess your piddly little list was to scare me or impress me was it LOL
Well for one I don't work for certain people and you would be on the top of that list and two with a mechanical engineering background and two red seal tickets in heavy industrial and manufacturing and 30 years around cnc equipment I am sure I could struggle by LOL

Do you ever realize how stupid you are making your self look here. NO one cares about your few 70's and what BS you rant to degrade 700's


Too bad you just didnot buy a vintage BDL 700 leave it alone and shoot it out of the box like I did and many many others did the same


At first I thought you were young and new to the sport so figured Ok the comments are expected but somewhere you said you were old , like me so now we know what is really going on LOL and I cannot fix that

Try real hard to grasp one thing here OVER 5 MILLION SOLD

That doesn't happen with junk regardless if you like the 700 or not so go away and start a new thread for your 70's and leave the rest of us talk here about our 700's and how they really work not how the internet tells you they do

Which from those that own them is VERY WELL OUT OF the BOX as PURCHASED

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Like I said earlier chuck makes every thread about himself.

Serious question here, why do companies like Stiller, Defiance, BAT, etc make Model 700 footprint actions if they suck? I know they all have M16 extractors, improved bolt release, non solder on bolt handles etc but still, at the end of the day its it's a 700 footprint. And I could be wrong and maybe they make other footprints too, like M70.
 
frabill said:
Like I said earlier chuck makes every thread about himself.

Serious question here, why do companies like Stiller, Defiance, BAT, etc make Model 700 footprint actions if they suck? I know they all have M16 extractors, improved bolt release, non solder on bolt handles etc but still, at the end of the day its it's a 700 footprint. And I could be wrong and maybe they make other footprints too, like M70.
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Agree with you 100%
On Chucky my first and last conversations with him
Just a little boy in this game or at least the experience of one IMO
take care
 
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I guess that is the biggest question that I have. We have established that the Remington 700 may be the strongest receiver in production. Much of that is attributed to its three rings of steel. So it is curious that every engineer that has redesigned it has removed that feature. Why is that? I’d suspect that argument may have held water in 1962. I’m not sure it’s valid anymore.

Aside from my dislike of the X-Mark trigger I’m not sure where I have “degraded” the Remington 700? I’m just not sure what makes it so great. And no one seems to be able to answer that question.
 
Buckmastr said:
Nothing like a Remington 700 thread without attention seekers boasting about their favorite alternative guns. ;-)
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Thanks for that. ;) I don’t read this thread as a Remington 700 celebration, but an open question about whether the 700 “is one of the best of all time” and personally I think there are better options for the price range. Agree to disagree and I’ve guided a few 700 armed clients and built several ground up customs they were the heart of early on, they worked just fine, just not my preference.

Ranger77 said:
Hello CGN,

I am looking to acquire as close to a "do it all" or an "all purpose" rifle as I can. I know there is no "one and done" rifle but something close is the goal. I think I have it narrowed down to the venerable Remington 700 chambered in the likewise tried and true 308. I looked at several other rifles over the 700 but this just seems to be such a solid, field proven rifle that I haven't found much else as universally recommended. Perhaps I missing something?
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Buckmastr said:
Sorry I hurt your feelings Ardent. That comment was of poor taste.
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I’ll survive, good to know how it was aimed and have a proper understanding of folks.

dgradinaru said:
Mauser 98......GREATEST OF ALL TIME!:stirthepot2: Hard to improve such a time proven action. Grandfather to most modern day actions.:nest::dancingbanana::dancingbanana:
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God bless the dancing banana, suppose we can thank Gate for that legacy. And prefer to think of the 98 as the sire of the modern rifle.

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3macs1 said:
WOW I am impressed. NOT
I can only guess your piddly little list was to scare me or impress me was it LOL
Well for one I don't work for certain people and you would be on the top of that list and two with a mechanical engineering background and two red seal tickets in heavy industrial and manufacturing and 30 years around cnc equipment I am sure I could struggle by LOL

Do you ever realize how stupid you are making your self look here. NO one cares about your few 70's and what BS you rant to degrade 700's


Too bad you just didnot buy a vintage BDL 700 leave it alone and shoot it out of the box like I did and many many others did the same


At first I thought you were young and new to the sport so figured Ok the comments are expected but somewhere you said you were old , like me so now we know what is really going on LOL and I cannot fix that

Try real hard to grasp one thing here OVER 5 MILLION SOLD

That doesn't happen with junk regardless if you like the 700 or not so go away and start a new thread for your 70's and leave the rest of us talk here about our 700's and how they really work not how the internet tells you they do

Which from those that own them is VERY WELL OUT OF the BOX as PURCHASED

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Mcdonalds sells a lot of cheese burgers. That doesn’t make them high quality.
 
Ardent said:
I’ll survive, good to know how it was aimed and have a proper understanding of folks.



God bless the dancing banana, suppose we can thank Gate for that legacy. And prefer to think of the 98 as the sire of the modern rifle.

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Beautiful Rifle! One day ill get me a commercial "Mauser 98" rifle like that. For now this budget mauser will have to do!

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frabill said:
Like I said earlier chuck makes every thread about himself.

Serious question here, why do companies like Stiller, Defiance, BAT, etc make Model 700 footprint actions if they suck? I know they all have M16 extractors, improved bolt release, non solder on bolt handles etc but still, at the end of the day its it's a 700 footprint. And I could be wrong and maybe they make other footprints too, like M70.
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I would imagine it's because they are "action makers" and there are already a plethora of mounts, triggers, and stocks out there for the 700 so they don't have to branch out into those areas too. The M16 extractor is better suited to the target rifle crowd who would be shooting thousands of rounds a season. If you blew an extractor during a match it would be simple to swap in a new one vs the standard 700 type. It does negate the gas handling of the design, but target shooters are probably willing to make that trade off.
 
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